Time Difference In The Philippines

I once watched a project manager lose a massive contract because he didn't respect the Time Difference In The Philippines. He had a software release scheduled for 9:00 AM New York time on a Monday. He sent the final bug list to his Manila-based dev team at 6:00 PM on Sunday, New York time. In his head, he was giving them a head start for their Monday morning. He didn't realize that 6:00 PM Sunday in New York is actually 6:00 AM Monday in Manila. By the time the developers sat at their desks two hours later, they had exactly one hour to fix twelve critical bugs before the client login was supposed to go live. They missed the window. The client saw a broken landing page, assumed the agency was incompetent, and pulled the funding. That’s the cost of treating